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  • Moderation of comment on Massbike

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    [This message was from 2013. The answer: to the question in the post is that cyclists’s rights are not the strong point of much bicycling advocacy.My comment was in response to lobbying initiated by the League of American Bicyclists at its annual National Bicycle Summit — it was that time of year. ] http://massbike.org/blog/2012/03/19/progress-in-dc-but-battle-continues-virtual-lobby-day-thursday/ The…

  • Bowker Overpass comments

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    Below are my comments on planned changes at Charlesgate and the Bowker Overpass in Boston. To summarize, I support most of the planned work, but I would like to see a more direct connection between the segments of Newbury Street either side of Charlesgate., and the replacement of the narrow two-way bikeway next to Charlesgate…

  • Commonwealth Avenue meeting of October 9, 2014

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    I attended the meeting at Boston University about Commonwealth Avenue in the evening of December 9, 2014. It was a day of unusually heavy rain. I got to the meeting about 1/2 hour late because of delays on the MBTA Riverside light rail line. Buses were running between Fenway and Kenmore stations while a barrier…

  • Making Commonwealth Avenue work for everyone?

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    The Barr Foundation has published an interview with Livable Streets Executive Director Jackie Douglas under the headline “Making Our Streets Work for Everyone”. The main point which Douglas makes is that progress, and a victory, as she describes it, were achieved by bringing groups with different interests onto the same page. The Boston Globe published…

  • Dummer yet

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    Let’s take a look at the intersection of Essex Street with Dummer Street in Brookline over the years, with the aid of Google Street Views. Essex Street leads south from Commonwealth Avenue opposite the Boston University Bridge — see Google map. In 2007, Essex Street had parking on the west side, which resulted in wrong-way…

  • Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston petition on Change.org

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    One Joshua Grolman has published a petition on Change. org asking for “protected bike lanes” on Centre Street, the main street through the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston. Centre Street is two-way, narrowed by parallel parking on both sides everywhere except at special locations — bus stops, turn lanes, approaches to intersections etc. While the…

  • Drainage Failure on Causeway Street

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    I took the photo below around 10 PM on January 5, 2017 looking west on Causeway Street in Boston from in front of North Station. Here’s a link to the location in Google maps. The default view in Google Maps is from before installation of the bikeway, as I write this. Streets are crowned (higher…

  • Pushback on Cambridge bicycle plans

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    Cambridge Civic Journal blogger Robert Winters has posted a thoroughgoing critique of a proposal for a great expansion in the number and mileage of on-street, barrier-separated bikeways. City Councillor Craig Kelley also has raised questions on his blog (and sent out the same message to an e-mail subscription list).  

  • My comments on the North Washington Street Bridge project

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    The comments below were addressed to Patricia Leavenworth, Chief Engineer at MassDOT. ATTN: Bridge Project Management, Project File No. 604173 Dear Ms. Leavenworth: I attended the 75% design about the North Washington Street bridge project on October 19, and I am commenting on that project. The quote below is on page 13 of the minutes…

  • Gillooly’s presentation

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    Deputy Commissioner James Gillooly’s presentation about the planned separate bikeways on Commonwealth Avenue is online at the URL below. I have prespred a version synchronized to his talk about it at the 2015 Massachusetts Moving Together conference. Gillooly, J. (2015, 11 01). Commonwealth Avenue Phase 2A… Retrieved June 25, 2016, from http://www.movingtogetherma.org/Pdfs/2015presentations/Gillooly-Issued_Move%20Together%20-%20Session%202D.pdf — deleted by…